In my last column, we looked at the fundamentals of object storage as it applies to the media industry and as applicable to archiving. Object stores have become a principle solution for long-term data ...

LTO is the largest volume magnetic tape. Magnetic tape is mostly used in cold storage archive and backup applications because of the latency in bringing tapes to tape drives in order to read them.

Large chunks of public cloud storage are built around object storage. Block and file are dominant in the datacentre, but in the cloud, where the need is for large amounts of relatively cheap storage ...

Starting today, all the data developers write to unstructured storage on Google’s Cloud Platform will now be automatically encrypted on Google’s servers. Google already encrypted data that was written ...

Performance has not always been a priority for object storage. Instead, object storage found its role in secondary applications, such as archiving and backup, and, although object storage is widely ...

Market leaders in distributed file systems and object storage include Dell Technologies, IBM, Pure Storage, Scality, NetApp and Qumulo, according to Gartner’s new 2020 Magic Quadrant. Gartner’s 2020 ...

As part of CRN’s 2024 Storage 100, here are 50 vendors bringing software capabilities, services and cloud connectivity to storage technology. The base of nearly any storage system is hardware. But ...

When it comes to deploying AI workloads, the pressure to keep up with data-hungry models has exposed a growing weakness in storage architecture. CoreWeave’s AI Object Storage directly addresses this ...

Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers the world’s most advanced data storage technology and services, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner as a Leader in the Magic ...